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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
«It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived /forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
backward, backwards, backward and forward, forwards, intelligible, look backward, pondered, pondering, ponders, position, precisely, Quiet Life, temporal
«It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.»
«That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sighs into eternity.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bridge, Bridge of Sighs, eternity, sighs, take over, The Bridge, The Bridge of Sighs
«I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, as follows, divide, follows, half time, high time, pity, sleeping, The Other Half
«Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
common denominator, denominator, denominators, equalizer
«To the frivolous, Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
first of all, frivolous, glad, serious, tidings, wishes
«It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
admit, fruitful, fruitless, interesting, occasionally, quarrel
«The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
difference of opinion, interpretation, involves, terrible
«How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
absurd, demand, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, liberties